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You said there is no recourse after talking about a situation in which no one has recourse against the employer, i.e. if you get fired out of spite for looking for a new job. There is as you know recourse if you're fired illegally, as the American people have been so generous as to grant foreigners the right to sue Americans employers in such cases.
Yes, but how do you sue if you have to leave the country on a short notice?
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I've been here for 17+ years, earn $650k/yr and I'm still in the same boat. I'm at the mercy of the govt. if I want to change jobs. Moreover, I need to restart the labor certification process and reapply for my green card though I get to keep the same priority date. There's no end in sight i.e. I cannot predict when I'll get my green card due to the per-country cap and backlog. Worse, I cannot quit and take time off…
Huh, wouldn't putting 1 million dollar investment get you EB5 green card in very short time?
>There's absolutely no recourse. Why would a person expect to have recourse against a government which exists for the sole purpose of furthering the interests of a group of people to which that person does not belong?
It is the American employer that has no recourse to protest the government restriction on their business!
Signed up just to say this. I don't see the controversy in not counting QA analyst as a specialty position. Just look up what countries like Canada, UK, France consider specialty positions and understand that this isn't a controversy. In fact, I was shocked that QA has been an H1B position in the United States. This is also why there are such massive backlogs for EB-3 for India, despite them getting circa 18% of the…
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I've been here for 17+ years, earn $650k/yr and I'm still in the same boat. I'm at the mercy of the govt. if I want to change jobs. Moreover, I need to restart the labor certification process and reapply for my green card though I get to keep the same priority date. There's no end in sight i.e. I cannot predict when I'll get my green card due to the per-country cap and backlog. Worse, I cannot quit and take time off…
Why not get an investor visa? It's easily convertible to green card according to several people I know who did it. You only need $500K or so for the whole thing. And investment money were returned even with some profit.
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It is the American employer that has no recourse to protest the government restriction on their business!
To the limited degree that that's true, that's too bad for the American employer. The American citizen wants the government to put those restrictions on the American employer, and he is the one the government exists to serve, at least ostensibly.
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$120k qualifies for low income benefits in San Francisco, so yeah that's not going to matter.
Low income for a family of four IIRC, not for a single person.
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To the limited degree that that's true, that's too bad for the American employer. The American citizen wants the government to put those restrictions on the American employer, and he is the one the government exists to serve, at least ostensibly.
The American employer is an American citizen. The situation where a majority extorts a minority is normally called oppression.
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And you must not be here on a non-immigrant Visa. You need a dual-intent compatible visa such as H1B.
This is incorrect: you don't need to be in the US at all to apply for any immigrant visa. I believe the Indian body shops perpetuate the fictitious idea that, similarly to naturalization, there is also a required time to be present in the country before being eligible for a GC. While I can see how it fits into their business model, it could not be further from the reality. Not only there is no required time to be in…
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How so? Body shop scammers who spam the H-1 system would no longer have an advantage.
Body shops would be able to bring in many more workers, and supress wages further. The dearth of middle income jobs in the USA is in part caused by these body shops flooding the domestic market with questionable talent, driving down wages and living standards severely.
References/data for that?